PS. If You are scared about lack of WINE on amd64, then I have good message for You, these screenshots are from FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using package by Ivoras available here: http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/wine/

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Sumatra PDF using WINE (Sumatra PDF is open-source software, but written for Windows platform).

That is only partially true. Sumatra PDF rendering libraries are ported to Unix!mupdf is absolutely the most minimalistic PDF viewer written in pure C which uses the Sumatra PDF rendering libraries. Most OpenBSD people I know of use mupdf, myself included.

Most FreeBSD people I know of use MAC Consequently mupdf port on FreeBSD has been broken for ages. Looks like TeXLive joke all over again. Good thing Hiroki Sato is the Core Team member so he will fix mupdf as soon as he finishes TeXLive port on which he is working since 2001

Indeed, mupdf is nice for reading the odd book.. doesn't support showing indexes though, so generally I keep epdfview around, xpdf is crap.

Sure neither it does support search or even a print. So somebody needs to sit down and to write more "user friendly" viewer based on Sumatra PDF libraries. But the most important thing is that those libraries are ported. So somebody already did the was the most difficult job

mupdf supports search, using vi-like bindings, but it's not perfect.. no such thing exists for PDF readers.

I checked You are not right for version 0.6. Are you suggesting that mupdf version 0.7 which is in 4.9 supports search? You are wrong about the other thing. Xpdf does indeed support search (actually it is called find and it is a binocular icon on the bottom of the reader).

Version 0.7 works perfectly installed straight from FreeBSD ports. So it is definitely not broken. Looking at the commit logs, it seems it was broken for less than a month in September. You must not be very old for that being ages

I checked You are not right for version 0.6. Are you suggesting that mupdf version 0.7 which is in 4.9 supports search? You are wrong about the other thing. Xpdf does indeed support search (actually it is called find and it is a binocular icon on the bottom of the reader).

I wasn't implying that only mupdf supported search, what I meant was there is no such thing as a perfect PDF reader.

I just checked and yes indeed the version 0.7 of mupdf DOES support search with key /

Unfortunately, the search is currently only within a page, not ahead pages. Mupdf is great but not very useful for long documents yet, because of that and the lack of indexes. But this will improve with time, I suspect. I noticed they changed the keybindings several times, but I’m glad they chose vi‐style in the end.

I also found a memory leak but haven’t gotten around to reporting it yet…

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Thanks for suggestion on mupdf, seems I may like it since I also use vi a lot, I was also suggested on FreeBSD Forums, that I may have disabled antialiasing in cairo ... do not remember doing that but who knows.

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